mazda 3s

I've been looking for something like this to charge my iPhone X and Series 4. All the ones on Amazon look like cheap crap with poor reviews. This will definitely be on my watch list.

$70, 15GB?

Do they think we’re idiots? You’d blow your wad in hours. 

SpamSandwich said:

ericthehalfbee said:

The Verge complained: “iPad app ecosystem underdeveloped and feature-limited”.

Hilarious. Especially when he was given a pre-release version of Photoshop to try. I wonder, if iOS tablet Apps/ecosystem are “limited” then how would you describe Android, which is a complete joke? Or using a Surface in tablet mode without any optimized software? What is his point of reference to make this claim?

Nilay Patel is a jackass.

Because he doesn't agree with you?

I appreciated his review -- all of the reviews actually. I like looking at differing viewpoints, not just ones that align with my views. I'm actually trying to decide between replacing my Apple Watch Series 2 Stainless Steel with an Apple Watch Series 4 Stainless Steel or getting an 11-inch iPad Pro 64GB (I have $750 in Best Buy gift cards that I cashed in from my CC rewards). 

The Series 4 would be a big upgrade for me speed wise over my Series 2 and I love the display, but at the end of the day this would be a "want" versus a need. I still mainly just use my Apple Watch for notifications and not much else, so $700 is kind of silly when I can just potentially wait and get it secondhand. 

The iPad Pro, however, is starting to sound like a more promising purchase. I don't currently have a personal iPad (my kids share a 2018 9.7-inch iPad 32GB), and it could serve as a more portable alternative to my 15-inch MacBook Pro. So knowing the limitations and pluses and getting input from all sides is great to read.

Marvin said:

mazda 3s said:

I think Apple is doing some fuzzy math here. The PR:

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/10/all-new-macbook-air-takes-flight/

It states: "Apple also today announced new MacBook Pro graphics options that will bring powerful Radeon Pro Vega graphics to MacBook Pro for the first time. These new graphics options deliver up to 60 percent faster graphics performance for the most demanding video editing, 3D design and rendering workloads.1"

That "1" footnote states:

"1 Testing conducted by Apple in October 2018 using preproduction 1.6GHz dual-core Intel Core i5-based MacBook Air systems with 8GB of RAM and 256GB SSD."

So that 60 percent performance gain is versus a MacBook Air with integrated graphics instead of the current MacBook Pro with Radeon Pro 560X.

Either that or their press release is f**ked.

That footnote 1 is in a number of paragraphs there. The correct footnote for the Vega GPUs is on the following page (footnote 15):

https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/

"Testing conducted by Apple in October 2018 using preproduction 2.9GHz 6-core Intel Core i9-based 15-inch MacBook Pro systems with Radeon Pro Vega 20 graphics, and shipping 2.9GHz 6-core Intel Core i9-based 15-inch MacBook Pro systems with Radeon Pro 560X graphics, both configured with 32GB of RAM and 4TB SSD. Cinema 4D R20 tested using a 15.7MB scene. Performance tests are conducted using specific computer systems and reflect the approximate performance of MacBook Pro."

The 560X performance is here:

https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-Pro-560X-GPU-Benchmarks-and-Specs.318630.0.html
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-MacBook-Pro-15-2018-2-6-GHz-560X-Laptop-Review.317358.0.html

60% higher would put it just above NVidia's 1050ti Max-Q. Of course NVidia will have their 2000 series in mobile soon with hardware-accelerated raytracing:

https://wccftech.com/nvidia-turing-mobility-rtx-2080-mobile-gpu/

but the AMD chip should be getting close to 3TFLOP. The old Mac Pro D700 GPUs were 3.5TFLOPs each.

Thanks for the clarification!

I think Apple is doing some fuzzy math here. The PR:

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/10/all-new-macbook-air-takes-flight/

It states: "Apple also today announced new MacBook Pro graphics options that will bring powerful Radeon Pro Vega graphics to MacBook Pro for the first time. These new graphics options deliver up to 60 percent faster graphics performance for the most demanding video editing, 3D design and rendering workloads.1"

That "1" footnote states:

"1 Testing conducted by Apple in October 2018 using preproduction 1.6GHz dual-core Intel Core i5-based MacBook Air systems with 8GB of RAM and 256GB SSD."

So that 60 percent performance gain is versus a MacBook Air with integrated graphics instead of the current MacBook Pro with Radeon Pro 560X.

Either that or their press release is f**ked.